Showcase Cages and adhesive

Looking to secure some strip led lighting to the ceiling of a Showcase cage and secure a stat probe on th wall. Anybody here have any experience with securing stuff to a polyethylene cag?

I discovered the hard way that the adhesive tape on the back of the LCD strips does not hold.

I used Loctite brand silicone to fix. The reason I went with this brand is because the enclosures were already setup, so gravity may win and pull the striping down. The Locktite has better holding power. The striping stayed put the first time and dried where I set it.
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Pvc or polyethylene cages?

I'm not up on the differences.

But I used it on the following:

Animal Plastics
Boaphile
BoaMasters - melamine
Custom Built that looks like AP material.

This Loctite will stick to about anything, I almost believe that it would stick to wet ice! :D

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Originally Posted by Reinz

I discovered the hard way that the adhesive tape on the back of the LCD strips does not hold.

I used Loctite brand silicone to fix. The reason I went with this brand is because the enclosures were already setup, so gravity may win and pull the striping down. The Locktite has better holding power. The striping stayed put the first time and dried where I set it.

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Would you recommend not having Animal Plastics rout the channel and just Locktite the strip to the ceiling of the enclosure instead of Locktite and in the channel??

I have two AP cages on order with grooving for LED lighting. I will still use the Locktite as well.

It should have a cleaner look even though it will be unnoticeable. Plus it will be perfectly straight as well.

I jave 2 Showcase and not much of anything sticks to them.
I havent tried anything other than aquarium silicone for a probe. It did stay but also came off easily now that I have decided to sell them.
I would bet IF one of the dragons got to the probe they would have been able to remove it.

Loctite power grab tape works pretty good. I scuffed up my path and cleaned it real good then heated it up with a heat gun. The corners where I turned the led's wouldn't stay down so I shot them with some hot glue. Hot glue works really well!

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That looks great Justin! :) Much better than mine. Compared to your perfectly straight lines mine looks like a 4 year old did it.

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That looks great Justin! :) Much better than mine. Compared to your perfectly straight lines mine looks like a 4 year old did it.

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Thank you Reinz! They are not that straight but not too noticeable on the ceiling.


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Update: the loctite powergrab doesn't work all that great. It started falling down in a few spots so I hit it with some hot glue. That is still holding well. I ordered another cage today, I'll try just hot glue this time.


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Sounds like Pit was on the money on that call. :)

I am surprised though since I have done 6 cages of 4 different makes. I haven't had any failures yet. And with my snakes going in and out of water bowls I had humidity spikes in the 90s.

New snake = new cage setup again. I ran out of hot glue sticks and found Gorilla glue sticks. My hi-temp glue gun is ten watts, found a 20 watt gun. This combo works 10x better than my old glue gun and el cheapo glue sticks. Found both at Walmart.

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If I recall correctly, Showcase Cages are made with HDPE and it's going to be hard to get anything to stick to that. HLH Reptiles put up a video series a while back were this problem came up. If you'd like, you can see the rundown on what was tried and what worked. Anyhow, if the gorilla glue doesn't work, you might try Locktite Plastics Bonding System.

Yes, not much sticks to polyethylene plastic. I couldn't find the loctite plastic bonding locally, but this hot glue works great and is much cheaper.


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